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PRVF-4557 During installation of Oracle Binaries ( 11.2.0.3)

Introduction:

During an Oracle software install for a new RAC environment once again I was surprised by Oracle . I had installed the Grid infrastructure (GI) 11.2.0.3 on RedHat Linux with success and I was about to install the Oracle Binaries which should be a piece of cake with the installed GI up and running properly. According to the old quote “Never stop learning ( or being surprised )” during the preparations the runInstaller managed to give me a surprise and I was unable to continue with installation. So obviously this surprise needed fixing first.

Details:

When running the runInstaller , after choosing the option to install the Oracle binaries on a Real Application Cluster environment and after a couple of options I received a pop up telling me :

PRVF-4557 : Node application “ora.svrb1hr.vip” is offline on node

I was unable to go ahead and had to investigate. As always Google and the Oracle Community where my brothers in oracle arms for this so i Came across this scenario :

First I checked my hosts file to make sure information to be present on both nodes. That showed following details which looked ok:

Well that was unexpected, because expectation was that the srvrb1hr.vip should be running on the first node. Still don’t understand what happened to cause this. Hmm and frankly if you have suggestions what happened please let me know . But I did know it was needed to bring back the vip address to the first server.

First attempt was to issue the command needed ( crs_relocate ) on the node where I was already working ( node 1) .

Grumbling with this but well at least it was explained what to do next ….

So I opened a session against the second node , made sure my Oracle Home was pointing to the GI.

oracle@svrb1hr:/opt/oracle [CRM]# ssh svrb2hr

On the second box the command crs_relocate was entered:

oracle@svrb2hr:/opt/oracle [CRS]# crs_relocate ora.svrb1hr.vip
Attempting to stop `ora.svrb1hr.vip` on member `svrb2hr`
Stop of `ora.svrb1hr.vip` on member `svrb2hr` succeeded.
Attempting to start `ora.svrb1hr.vip` on member `svrb1hr`
Start of `ora.svrb1hr.vip` on member `svrb1hr` succeeded.
Attempting to start `ora.LISTENER.lsnr` on member `svrb1hr`
Start of `ora.LISTENER.lsnr` on member `svrb1hr` succeeded.